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Definition of need : 1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
2. Of necessity. See Needs.
3. Situation of need; peril; danger.
4. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; ( pl.) necessary things; business.
5. To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
6. To be wanted; to be necessary.
7. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Synonyms:

priority, pack, duty, get hold of, collect, train, strike, guide, assume, film, sine qua non, ask, deprivation, bring, incumbency, needful, exigency, extremity, hire, accept, staple, over, gather up, lead, essential, affect, pauperism, without fail, read, penuriousness, motive, should, ingest, convey, occupy, regard, feature, desideratum, must-have, essence, office, learn, select, charter, acquire, motivation, fill, devoir, could do with something, have got, direct, element, ought, adopt, requisite, unavoidableness, poorness, take in, exigence, cry out for, call for, prerequisite, urgency, admit, indispensableness, impecuniosity, subscribe to, basis, burden, privation, deal, imply, quest, consider, motif, burning issue/question, of necessity, pick up, indispensable, take on, invite, rent, destituteness, compulsory, indigence, pauperisation, engage, key, conduct, command, posit, hold, penury, use up, take away, look at, concern, condition, fatality, pauperization, study, at all costs, rely on, bespeak, impoverishment, motivating, take up, impecuniousness, aim, destiny, precondition, drive, beggary, destitution, charge, have, contend, rich, exact, wishing, contain, depend on, inquire, make, needfulness, carry, postulate, take aim, get, pick out, obligatory, involve, emergency, request, responsibility, call, claim, choose, enquire, commitment, basic, take, shoot, fate, do, indispensability, remove, vital, lease, imperative, core, absence, consume, neediness, contract, submit, withdraw, necessary, subscribe

gap, lack, deficiency, sectional, segmental, omission, fragmentation, insufficiency, shortcoming, deficit, hiatus, part, shortage, fraction, scantiness, shortfall, discontinuity, curtailment, incompleteness

inadequacy, default, miss

hope, urge, eagerness, pine, fondness, lust, ardency, yearning, desire, yearn, acquisitiveness, longing, covetousness, craving, want, fancy, hunger, welcome, thirst, crave, itch, expect, passion, amorousness, greed, expectation, grasp, hanker, covet, wish, long

necessity, mandate, obligation, requirement, inexorability, must, constraint, compulsion

pennilessness, poverty

necessitate, favor, oblige, require, demand, indulge, constrain, accommodate

Usage examples:

• No one need know of it." - "The Way of the Gods", John Luther Long.
• I don't need 'em,- I can get along. - "Patty's Social Season", Carolyn Wells.
• But there's no need to think of that, is there? - "General Bramble", André Maurois.